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Tag: Semiotic analysis

In Metro, January 16, 2017 The striking juxtaposition of two items on two halves of the newspaper clearly exposes the values (or lack of such) of western society. The newspaper’s attitudes towards global issues such as immigration and migrants reinforce the us and them discourse and contributes to augmenting the distancing between the west and the… Continue reading I spy… half the world away

In The Economist, December 24 – January 6th, 2017 (Read the article here) Human animals and reindeer go back a long time; some of the earliest stone carvings in Europe are of reindeer. In this article, The Economist describes the reindeer meat industry in Finland and talks to a reindeer herder and his family. Humans… Continue reading I spy…Let it Reindeer